Hey Kibler! Thanks for your thoughts! I always love hearing your opinions.
Regarding Arena - I think your idea of a custom-crafted draft pool is cool. It's something we've been discussing. I think there are some cool things about Standard Arena, and we've had a lot of fun with it internally. I'm not sure that's the end-all-be-all of Arena Formats, though, and I wonder if just more variety in Arena would be better than any one solution forever. Looking forward to how it feels in a live environment. We do agree 100% that having more strategy and planning and synergy in Arena drafts would be better and we have some more radical ideas that could help with that (and we are prototyping them now).
Regarding Wild - We totally agree. Not ready to make any announcements right now but as Wild gets a lot spicier, we need more support for it.
I had to stop watching at 44 minutes so if you said anything mean in the last 5 i will come edit this post with a sadface :)
Ben Brode
Hey Kibler! Thanks for your thoughts! I always love hearing your opinions.
Regarding Arena - I think your idea of a custom-crafted draft pool is cool. It's something we've been discussing. I think there are some cool things about Standard Arena, and we've had a lot of fun with it internally. I'm not sure that's the end-all-be-all of Arena Formats, though, and I wonder if just more variety in Arena would be better than any one solution forever. Looking forward to how it feels in a live environment. We do agree 100% that having more strategy and planning and synergy in Arena drafts would be better and we have some more radical ideas that could help with that (and we are prototyping them now).
Regarding Wild - We totally agree. Not ready to make any announcements right now but as Wild gets a lot spicier, we need more support for it.
I had to stop watching at 44 minutes so if you said anything mean in the last 5 i will come edit this post with a sadface :)